Improved rail wat-rail chair



dilated tates @nicht @titille JAMES-BRIDGER,-OF NEWARK, NEW YORK.'

Letters Patent No. 95,643, dated October 12, 1869.

IMPROVED RAILWAY-RAIL CHAIR.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES BItIDGER,"of Newark, l

in the county lof lVayne, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Railroad-v Ohairs for Track-Rails; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and application of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings," making a part of this specification, inwhich Figure 1 is atransvelse section enclosing a common T railroad-rail;

Figure 2, a perspective view of the same, asapplied to the junction of two railroad-rails; and

Figure 3, a uperspective view of the parts, separate.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the iigures.

The nature of my invention consists in providing a chair for the reception 'of contiguous railroad-rails, which shall hold the ends of the same at their` juncture,;as rmly from vertical and lateral motion and twisting of rails' or ,ehairrgts though they were one continuous rail, the rails and chair mutually strengthening and supporting each other.

.lo enable those skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and application.

The body of the chair consists of two oblong plates,

rolled, cast, or otherwise manufactured, in such a.

manner, that ea'ch has a iiat base and a flange along one edge, said ange projecting upward and inward, so as to rest upon the base of the rail, and hold the latter firmly in place.

In thje drawingsa is the dat base of one of the plates composing the chair, and b, that of the other, the latter heing made narrower than the former, and adapted to rest upon it.

a is the flange along the edge of the plate a, and b1, that along the edge of the plate b, the two locking. over the base of the rail r, as shown in g. 1.

Under the shoulder or liange al, a rectangular rcprovided with a recess or socket, e,

cess, c, is provided to receive the edge Im, of" the flat plate b, which projects into it, as shown is igs. 1 and 2.

It will be observed, thc t under the ange of plate '1), there is no recess corresponding to c in the opposite plate, but that when the edge m is' inserted into its socket c, the recesses left under each iange,al b, are symmetrical and equal, beingadapted to t per'- fectly to the base-dange of `the rail.

And it will be further observed, that when the two plates are attached together for the purpose of supporting the rail,vthe chair appears perfectly symmetrical. the edge I)2 coming exactly over' the edge a2, and the thickness of both together being exactly equal to that of the edge t, along -the opposite side of the chair. v

Vertical holes, c c c, are made through the anges al b, and through the dat part of the two plates near their thin edge, through which holes spikes are driven into the cross-ties, the spikes clamping the two parts of the chair 'firmly together,and attaching the whole v to the tics, so as to secure the rails from a vertical or lateral motion in relation to each other when the 'trains are passing over.

Having thus described my-invention,

' What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A symmetrical tially as herein set forth, that is to say, of two plates, a a1 b bl, each having a 'hat base and one lateral ilange, fomnedasY described and shown, and the lower plate to receive the edge m of the upper plate, when employed in connection with spikes driven through holes c c, arranged as described, the whole constituting a chair to receive and securely hold the rail, substantially in the manner specified.

JAMES BRIDGER.

Witnesses;

J anotan BLANCHARD, BYRON TnoMAs.

railroad-chair, constructed substan-V 

